“From reporting on measures that demand that you follow complicated and redundant processes, to documenting lines of text that add no value to a patient’s medical record, to hunting down records and faxes from other physicians and sifting through them, wasteful tasks are draining energy and taking time away from patients,” wrote Verma in the letter.

Verma acknowledged the heavily-regulated, digitized healthcare industry has turned many clinicians passionate about improving the health of their patients into over-worked data entry clerks.